Tape-pasting device



May 12, 1925.

C. J. WALBRAN TAPE PASTING DEVICE Filed June 28, 1922 A TTORNEY Patented May 12, 1925.

, UNITED STATES PATENT ormca.

on'mszrorrrnn JAMES WALIBRAN, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK,- AssIeN'on 'ro KLEIN- sonmmr ELECTRIC COMPANY, me, or LONG ISLAND CITY, NEW YORK, A con- PORATION OF NEW YORK.,

- TAPE-PASTING DEVICE.

Application filed June 28, 1922. Serial No. 571,379.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that CHRISTOPHER JAMES WALBRAN, a citizen of the-United States, and resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and Stateof New York, has invented certain Improvements in Tape-Pasting Devices, of ,which the following is a specification.

Modern printing tele'graphy records its received messages by means of tape printing or page printing. In using the former method, it becomes necessary to paste the tape, upon which the message has been printed, on a suitable support, such as a receiving blank, so as to make it handier to read and easier to handle and file. The present invention has for one of its purposes the provision of a pasting device of great simplic'it-y and. efliciency, to expedite the pasting of such a tape upon a support.

The device is shown in Fig. 1, in a vertical, longitudinal section, Fig. 2 is a top view of the device and Fig. 3,-a vertical trans-- versal section, on line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

A casin 10, of suitable material, having a substantially circular cross section, is provided, on its upper side, with a guiding'device or, channel 11, for receiving tape 12, upon which the telegraphic message has been printed.

One endof casing 10 is tapered and provided with a recess or flat groove 13, preferably aligned with tape channel-11, so that tape 12, when leaving channel 11 may pass groove 13 to and underneath pressure roller 14, to the message blank or other surface, upon which it is intended to be pasted. The upper side of tape 12 receives the printed message, for instance, The quick brown fox' etc. and the lower side is, preferably, provided with an adhesive material, dried thereon, to be moistened, as hereinafter set forth, though no dried preparation may be placed upon this side of tape 12, but a liquid adhesive may be applied to it by the device itself.

Tape 12 can be held stationary, or. its tension and movement controlled, by means of roller 15, pivoted in bearings 16 of spring 17, the resiliency of which can be adjusted by means of set screw18, which ,also regulates the pressure of roller 15 upon tape 12.

f':--Within casing 10, there is provided a container 19, which may hold water, to provide moisture for the adhesive side of tape 12 or may contain a liquid adhesive, such as mucilage, to be applied to the tape, before 'belng pasted to a support.

Such moisture, or liquid adhesive, satu-,

rates an applicator 20, made of felt or other,

absorbent material, and inserted in container 19, through a proper tubing'of a stopper or, other closing means, while its free end is in contact with the lower side of tape 12 and applies moisture or liquid thereto. The end. ofcaslng 10, opposite to that used in applying tape to a support, is closed with a suit.-

able cap 21, resiliently-holding the moisture container 19 and the applicator 20 toward 7 the tapered end of the casing. It'will be understood that any well known means for securing cap 21 to body 10 may be employed, as" for example, a screw thread connection, or a slot and bayonet joint.

In using the pasting device, tape 12 having the printed message on its upper side, is inserted into channel 11, passed under roller 15, through groove 13, over moisture applicator 20 and under roller 14 to the support upon which it is to be secured? The lower side of the tape, being now moist or adhesive, is ap lied to the support and held thereon and, t ereafter, the pasting device is moved toward the right, as viewed in Fig.

1, exerting pressure upon roller 14 and tape 12 held thereunder, whereby a length of tape is secured to the support, approximately equal to the width of the support. By

watching the printed matter in the space between the rollers 15 and 14, it is easy to tear the tape at a suitable place, preferably between two words, by a simple twist of the hand holding the pasting device and pressing a finger of the other hand close in front of roller 14, upon tape 12,.whereupon a new line of tape may be started from the left side of the support, until the entire message is pasted thereon.

Claims.

1. In combination, a casing having an inclined end, a channel on said casing for receiving and guiding material to be moistened, a spring-pressed roller at one end of said channel and at the to of the incline of said casing, a pressure ro er at the base of the incline of sa1d casing, a container for liquid in sa1d casing, an absorbent member 2. A device for moisteningmaterial, com- PIlSlIlg a casing, a gulde for the material to be moistened on said casing, a liquid con-' tainer in said casing, and means extending through said easing into said guide for moistening one side only ofthe material with liquid from said container.

3. The combination as set 'forth in claim 2 in which said means comprises a strip of absorbent material.

4. The combination as set forth in claim 2 together with resilient means for holding said moistening means in engagement with the material tobe moistened.

5. The combination as set forth in claim 2 in which said means comprises a strip of absorbent material, together with a spring for pressin'g said container against the for ward end of said casing to maintain saidabsorbent material in engagement with the material to be moistened. I

6. The combination as set forth in claim 2 together with a roller spring pressed into moistening means.

7. The combination asset forth in claim 2 together with a roller spring pressed into said guide to control the tension of material 'to be moistened in passing over said moistening'means, and means for manually va rying the pressure exerted by said roller on the material to be moistened.

8. The combination as set forth in claim 2 in which the forward end of said casing at the end of said guide is shaped to form a knife J edge with which the moistened material may be torn.

9. The combination as set forth in claim 2 in which the forward end of said casing at the end of said guide is shaped to form a knife edge with which the moistened material may be torn, together with a pressure roller supported at the end of said guide and over said knife edge.

. Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 24th day of June, 1922.

CHRISTOPHER JAMES WALBRAN. 

